Banggar Advises Sri Mulyani To Mobilize High Officials Of The Ministry Of Finance To Clarify State Assets To Law Enforcement

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Budget Agency of the House of Representatives (DPR) Said Abdullah suggested that Finance Minister (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani mobilize top officials from the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) to clarify their wealth to Law Enforcement Officials (APH).

"This action is to answer public doubts," Said said in an official statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Thursday, March 2.

According to him, the case of showing off wealth by the family of a former Directorate General (Ditjen) Tax official, Rafael Alun Trisambodo (RAT), has spread everywhere. Now, the public continues to highlight the luxurious lifestyle of a number of officials from the Directorate General of Taxes and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.

The public has the right to control and has the right to ask questions about situations that they consider odd. However, the public also needs to be presented balanced information because so far the Minister of Finance has imposed many sanctions on Ministry of Finance employees because they have been proven to have committed fraud.

The Ministry of Finance last year received 185 fraud complaints by Ministry of Finance employees and 96 of them have been sentenced. In 2021, the Minister of Finance has sentenced 114 Ministry of Finance employees to public complaints against 174 employees deemed fraud.

Said assessed that such actions should be appreciated and needed to be conveyed to the public to show that the Ministry of Finance continues to make inward corrections to maintain employee integrity, and make this a momentum to reform the bureaucracy and structuring a good governance system.

Thus, he asked the public to remain proportional and objective in seeing the situation, so that the performance of the Directorate General of Taxes and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise must still be appreciated. These two institutions are an important pillar of supporting state administration and development funding.

"Don't let this spotlight actually make the performance of taxes and customs decrease because there is a job motivation within employees," he said.

Therefore, he hopes that employees under the Ministry of Finance, especially the Directorate General of Taxes and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, will continue to work hard even though they are in the public spotlight. The great work will undermine public doubts.

With various steps to improve, Said believes that the public's perception of the Ministry of Finance will recover and make all levels of the Ministry of Finance more mature as part of state servants.